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Film Number ADM 510

Title:Operation
Husky – The Invasion of Sicily

Mediterranean Operations of the Royal Navy

Production
Company:Gaumont British News

Cameraman:H. J.Morley

Production Date:7/1943

Author's Note:

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Film 1:

Opening scenes onboard a Colony Class cruiser as men scan coast
and sky.

Gunnery and Navigation Officers check the ship’s position
for bombardment.

In the distance the monitor HMS Erebusfires a salvo. There are explosions onshore as
enemy aircraft bomb the beach-head.

LCIs (L) lie offshore. There follows a mid-distance sequence off
the port bow of HMS Mauritius
as she fires 4-inch AA.

Then a sequence as a stick of bombs splashes around the transports.
Flak pursues a high level raider.

Film 2:

A sequence from the eyes of AA cruiser HMS Carlisle to a group of Indian Red Cross and freshly dressed
wounded on foc’sle.

Alongside to port is an Insect Class gunboat and to starboard a
LSG. A party of Indians transfers to LCA.

Long distance pan over transports, LCI (L)s
and LSTs in anchorage.

Explosions on shore from an air raid. Bombs explode among the
ships while a little answering flak speckles the sky.

Good mid-range sequence of bombs exploding in the water between
the camera-ship HMS Carlisle and
a troop transport. (Edinburgh Castle?)

High above barrage
balloons hang in a sky filled with flak. There follows a view aft from the foremast
of the camera ship steaming at speed. Tracer is fired off at a distant aircraft.
View off the port bow of HMS Taireas. The LCA from HMS Carlisle closes on the hospital ship.

Film 3:

A sequence showing a stricken merchantman.

Flames and smoke are billowing from the foc’sle.
The crew are abandoning ship and a LCT (3) stands by to pick up the boats.

The camera ship approaches the burning vessel and an Insect Class River
Gnboat also draws near, a fire hose already playing
from its foc’sle.

A further sequence of the pall of smoke from the ship and from
patches of oil burning on the sea.

Final sequence past the upper works of a US merchantman to the stricken
vessel now completely ablaze, back broken.

LCT passes left to right.

Film 4:

Commences with a long range pan over the invasion fleet at sea in
low light. There follows a long sequence showing flares at night.

The camera is stopped down so that these appear merely as groups
of white dots.

Film 5:

Early light. A long range shot of LCAs as they head inshore. More
flares. LCT passes diagonally right to left across the anchorage.

Inshore a destroyer lays white smoke.

Film 6:

A long range silhouette of Type III Hunt Class destroyer. Long
range of LSI as landing craft head inshore in misty conditions.

Film 7:

Long range to shore. The sun is higher now and a transport and
Royal Scotsman Class LSI (H)? lie offshore.

Telephoto showing troops moving inland from the beach where LSTs
and smaller craft are unloading.

Long range film of a
ditched aircraft, only the tail-plane is still visible.

Film 8:

Long range film of support forces – Colony Class cruiser, a
Tribal and other destroyers.

Then a long range shot of LCI (L) passing close to the beacon
submarine followed by a long range shot off the port quarter of two LSTs
lying offshore. In the background is a large three-funnelled transport.